Each morning the missionary advertises on the neon sign,

It tells the native population that civilization is fine.

And pre-educated savages holler from the bamboo tree

That civilization is not for me to see.



Chorus:

Oh bongo bongo bongo, I don't wanna leave the

Congo oh no, no, no, no, no,

Bingle bangle bongle, I don't wanna leave jungle,

I refuse to go.

I don't want landlords, junkyard, cocktails, caviar,

I'll make it clear that no matter how they coax me,

I'll stay right here.



I looked through a magazine a missionary's wife concealed.

I see how people who are civilized bang you with automobile.

When they have two weeks' vacation, they hurry to vacation grounds,

They swim and they fish, but that's what I do all year round.



Chorus:

Oh bongo bongo bongo, I don't wanna leave the

Congo oh no, no, no, no, no,

Bingle bangle bongle, I don't wanna leave jungle,

I refuse to go.

I don't want landlords, junkyard, cocktails, caviar,

I'll make it clear that no matter how they coax me,

I'll stay right here.



They have things like the atom bomb,

So I think I'll stay here where I am,

Civilization, I'll stay here.